• Lyudmila [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          In this (and most cases) there’s an ocean between the law as written and how it actually gets applied. This was a pretty cut and dry example of trafficking, even including situations where victims definitionally could not give consent and yet here we are.

          • VILenin [he/him]@hexbear.net
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            If, despite all the efforts of the DNC and the GOP, a good law (like a bill meant to protect vulnerable individuals) somehow manages to make it onto the books, it immediately gets effectively repealed through interpretation by the judiciary until it becomes a waste of ink on the code books.

            Add that the average jury is composed almost entirely of reactionary treatlerites who are easily swayed by the theatrics of highly-paid lawyers and this is what you get.

            This is how you get billionaire celebrities getting a verbal warning for their 27th DUI.